NVIDIA deepens cooperation with Japan to lay out "sovereign artificial intelligence" and industrial robot network
During his recent visit to Japan, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced a series of major cooperation agreements with the Japanese government and local industries. NVIDIA will fully participate in Japan's "Sovereign AI" infrastructure construction and "Physical AI" industrial layout, trying to deepen the Japanese market through technology export. Jen-Hsun Huang delivers a speech in Japan At the Industry Summit in Tokyo, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NVIDIA jointly announced a national artificial intelligence project called “Noetra”. This project is sponsored by Group (SoftBank), , Honda, NEC, , Fujitsu and other 44 key Japanese manufacturing and technology companies, it plans to invest approximately 1 trillion yen from the Japanese government in the next five years to build a large-scale computing center in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. The center is expected to be put into operation in 2028. At that time, approximately 27,500 NVIDIA next-generation "Rubin" architecture graphics processors (GPUs) will be deployed to develop local multi-modal large language models and focus on empowering the fields of industrial automation, robotics and automobile manufacturing. At the same time, Nvidia announced the further expansion of its strategic cooperation with SoftBank Group. SoftBank is building Japan's largest artificial intelligence supercomputer based on Nvidia's Blackwell and Grace Blackwell chip architecture, and is taking the lead in piloting artificial intelligence radio access network (AI-RAN) technology based on 5G networks to build a basic computing network covering Japan. In addition, Nvidia also cooperates with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and When leading Japanese industrial and manufacturing companies reach cooperation, they plan to combine physical simulation platforms with industrial robots to accelerate the transformation of smart factories and automated production lines. In his speech, Huang Renxun emphasized that data and computing autonomy are of great strategic significance to the economic security of various countries, and the creation of "sovereign artificial intelligence" that conforms to local languages and industrial processes will become the core of future digital infrastructure. Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Ryomasa Akasawa said that combining Japan’s on-site experience in advanced manufacturing with cutting-edge computing power will help consolidate the competitiveness of local industries and alleviate labor shortages caused by the aging population. Analysts pointed out that in the context of losing some large overseas markets due to the impact of U.S. export controls, NVIDIA is accelerating its strategic focus to allied markets such as Europe and Japan, and boosting hardware infrastructure sales by exporting the concept of "sovereign artificial intelligence". However, whether Japan's local artificial intelligence ecosystem can effectively digest the huge computing power, and whether related industrial applications can be implemented as scheduled, remains to be further tested by the market.